From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
"" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kingsley Cheung <kingsley@aurema.com>
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] Re: setrlimit incorrectly allows hard limits to exceed soft limits
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:34:34 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021209042525.1CF2E2C383@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:07:00 -0200." <Pine.LNX.4.50L.0212061106050.22252-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.50L.0212061106050.22252-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva>
you write:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Rusty Trivial Russell wrote:
>
> > > Just try "ulimit -H -m 10000" for memory limits that were not
> > > previously set. You end up with (hard limit = 10000) < (soft limit =
> > > unlimited).
>
> > + if (new_rlim.rlim_cur > new_rlim.rlim_max)
> > + return -EINVAL;
>
> Wouldn't it be better to simply take the soft limit down
> to min(new_rlim.rlim_cur, new_rlim.rlim_max) ?
POSIX says -EINVAL, and since it's a programmer fuckup, I'd agree.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-09 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-06 3:26 [TRIVIAL] Re: setrlimit incorrectly allows hard limits to exceed soft limits Rusty Trivial Russell
2002-12-06 13:07 ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-08 23:22 ` Kingsley Cheung
2002-12-08 23:34 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
[not found] <1054753245@toto.iv>
2002-12-09 2:47 ` Peter Chubb
2002-12-09 12:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-12-09 19:28 ` Peter Chubb
2002-12-09 20:14 ` Rik van Riel
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